The Companies (Disclosure of Address) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Made: 23rd March 2015

Laid before Parliament: 24th March 2015

Coming into force: 30th June 2015

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 243(2) of the Companies Act 2006[^f00001], makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Companies (Disclosure of Address) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 30th June 2015.

Amendment to the Companies (Disclosure of Address) Regulations 2009

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• (1) The Companies (Disclosure of Address) Regulations 2009[^f00002] are amended as follows.

• (2) In Schedule 1, after “The Secretary of State;” insert “the Minister for the Cabinet Office;”.

Signed

Jo Swinson — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs — Department for Business, Innovation and Skills — 23rd March 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of these Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Companies (Disclosure of Address) Regulations 2009 by including the Minister for the Cabinet Office in Schedule 1 to those Regulations. Schedule 1 to those Regulations specifies the public authorities to whom the registrar may disclose protected information in accordance with section 243 of the Companies Act 2006. For this purpose “protected information”, as defined by section 240 of that Act, means, in relation to a company director who is an individual, information as to that director’s usual residential address or the information that the service address of the director is that director’s usual residential address.

An impact assessment had not been produced for this instrument, as no impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2006 c. 46.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2009/214, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.